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Saturday, August 2, 2025

Former state university employee Ketchum paid in $127K to pension fund, could collect $2.37M in retirement

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Former state university employee Kenneth Ketchum, who retired in July 2016, saved $126,599 toward a pension over 30 years working for state universities, State Universities Retirement System of Illinois records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Ketchum would collect as much as $2.37 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Ketchum received $49,911 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 3 years of retirement, Ketchum will have already received $154,269 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the state pension fund.

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